No early marks for naughty MPs

It's as if Qantas and Virgin have asked Bronwyn Bishop not to toss MPs out of question time on Thursday afternoons.

The last sitting day of the week is notoriously ratty, with plenty of MPs getting their "early marks" which, it's suspected, are sometimes turned into earlier flights home.

You could sympathise with the airlines having to deal with politicians wanting last-minute flight changes. Perhaps a special "Naughty MP" check-in queue has to be set up.

This Thursday's question time was about standard for noise, silliness and all-purpose abuse.

By question three - after a wall of ironic cheering from Labor when Tony Abbott said cabinet made a decision on national security and the start of what became a running fight over who accused the government of dog whistling over the same issue - the Speaker intervened.

She knew it was Thursday, when behaviour was usually appalling, and she wouldn't tolerate it.